MIT Technology Review - laser-healinghttp://www.technologyreview.com/tagged/laser-healing/
enLaser Show in the Surgical Suitehttp://www.technologyreview.com/demo/412002/laser-show-in-the-surgical-suite/
<p>Lasers and a century-old dye could supplant needles and thread.</p><p>Despite medicine’s inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein’s monster than to the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Irene Kochevar and Robert Redmond have developed a method that has the potential to replace the surgeon’s needle and thread. Using surgical lasers and a light-activated dye, the researchers are prompting tissue to heal itself.</p>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices412002 at http://www.technologyreview.comHealing with Laser Heathttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/411212/healing-with-laser-heat/
<p>Surgical lasers could soon heal cuts as well as make incisions.</p><p>The promise of medical lasers goes beyond clean incisions and eye surgery: Many believe that lasers should be used not just to create wounds but to mend them too. <a href="http://www.tau.ac.il/~applphys/" target="_blank">Abraham Katzir</a>, a physicist at Tel Aviv University, has a system that may just do the trick and is proving successful in its first human trials. </p>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0000digitalservices411212 at http://www.technologyreview.com